There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.
Dennis Miller

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?
Bud Abbott

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley